Ash Buckles's Recent Posts

For 15 years, Ash Buckles has worked at the forefront of branding through search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, blog marketing, social media, and ColdFusion development. As a recognized industry thought leader, he regularly speaks at search marketing events put on by organizations such as the American Marketing Association, SLCSEM, and Utah Valley Entrepreneurial Forum. His experience includes online marketing consulting with hundreds of enterprise clients as well as small businesses.

Editor's note: This post is an oldie, but a goodie. It was originally published March 2010 and it warranted an update. Do you have any favorite Chrome extensions for search engine optimization or blogging? Share in the comments below!

***

I've converted, but my first experience with Google Chrome occurred in

Blogging is an open dialog between the writer and their audience. It allows for a two-way communication through an original post and the subsequent comments and conversation. It provides fresh, unique content for the search engines to crawl and index. It exposes people within an organization to the outside

This Google+ SEO & Authorship presentation was given by AJ Kohn at Mozcon 2012.

Google's secret weapon is in mobile with Android holding 52% of the smart phone market. This is a critical thing to understand for any marketing campaign. There is huge opportunity in mobile and Google.

It's difficult to open up a conference to a bunch of advanced users in online marketing but Paddy Moogan, with Distilled, did a fantastic job. He discussed, very quickly, 35 link building tips. But first, he pointed out that link building is not easy. He meant it.

Ash Buckles answers: "If I have a nicer site than my competitor, why do they rank above me?"

With all this discussion about paid links and outing SEOs, I don't jump on the outcry bandwagon. I try to anticipate Google's next move. I want to focus on future-proofing our campaigns and these are great times to reconsider what Google is going to do next.

Images have been published on web pages for nearly 20 years but the search engines have continued to give greater placement to images on the search engine results pages (SERPs). This may come from the fact that Facebook receives nearly 250 million picture uploads daily and Pinterest reaches

Most of my holiday vacation was spent resting, visiting with family, and reflecting on the past year. I thought about my accomplishments, failures, and intentions. I beat myself up for not blogging enough and wondered what changed from previous years.

Several reasons I didn't blog:

The web is comprised of information; or content. Every web page online is a living document of information that contains a specific piece of information with an intended purpose. Search engines crawl and index pages that are unique and provide value to their visitors. For example: a publisher writes content